نسخ

, aor. نَسَخَ , (L, K,) inf. n. نَسْخٌ ; and انتسخ ; (L;) He, or it, annulled, superseded, obliterated, effaced, or cancelled, (L, K,) a thing, بِشَىْءٍ آخَرَ by another thing. (L.) It annulled, or superseded, a thing, and took the place of it. (L.) Ex. نَسَخَتِ الشَّمْسُ الظِّلَ , and انتسخته , The sun annulled, or superseded, the shade, (S, L,) and took the place of it. (L.) نَسَخَ الشَّيْبُ الشَّبَابَ Hoariness took the place of youth. (A, Msb.) Also, نَسَخَ He annulled, superseded, abolished, or made void, a thing, substituting for it another thing. (K.) Ex. نَسَخَ آيَةً He (God) abrogated, annulled, or superseded, the verse of the Kur-án, (Lth, Fr, S, L,) substituting for it another; (Lth, Fr, L;) بِٱلْآيَةِ by the [i. e. another] verse: (S:) or he changed it by substituting for it another: نَسَخَ signifying he changed a thing by substituting for it another thing. (IAar, L.) [See also 4.] Legal نَسْخ , or abrogation, may respect the letter and the force of command, or one of these; whether the command have been performed, as is generally the case, or have not been performed, as in the case of the sacrifice of Ishmael, [or, as some of the Muslims say, agreeably with the Bible narrative, Isaac,] for Abraham was commanded to sacrifice him, and then the command was abrogated before its execution. (Msb.) Also, نَسَخَ He, or it, changed, or altered, a thing. (K.) Ex. نَسَخَتِ الرِّيحُ آثَارَ الدَّارِ The wind changed, or altered, [or, it may also be rendered, obliterated, or effaced,] the traces of the dwelling. (S.) نَسَخَهُ He transformed him, or metamorphosed him, into a worse, or more foul, or more ugly, shape; i. q. مَسَخَهُ : (K:) ex. نَسَخَهُ ٱللّٰهُ قِرْدًا God transformed him into an ape. (Fr, Aboo-Sa'eed.) [Also, as used in post-classical, and perhaps in classical, times, He (God) caused his soul to pass into the body of another man.] The connexion of the soul of a human being, after its departure from the body, with the body of another human being, is termed نَسْخٌ ; with the body of a beast, مَسْخٌ ; with a plant, فَسْخٌ ; and with an inanimate and not-increasing body, رَسْخٌ . (Marginal note in a copy of the KT.) [But see 1 (last sentence) in art. فسخ . See also 6.] نَسَخَ He transferred a thing from one place to another, it remaining the same: (TA:) he transferred what was in a bee-hive to another [hive or place]. (K.) نَسَخَ الكِتَابَ , (S, Msb, K,) aor. نَسَخَ , inf. n. نَسْخٌ ; (Msb;) and انتسخهُ , (S, Msb, K,) and استنسخهُ ; (S, K;) are syn., (S,) signifying He copied, or transcribed, the writing, or book, (T, Msb, K,) letter for letter. (T.) مَا نَسَخَهُ وَإِنَّمَا مَسَخَهُ [He has not copied it, but only corrupted it by changing the diacritical points and altering the meanings]. (A.) نَسْتَنْسِخُ , in the Kur, xlv. 28, signifies We set down, or register, and preserve: (Jel:) or We command to be transcribed and to be set down, or registered. (T.)

see 6.

He (God) made a verse of the Kur-án to be abrogated, annulled, or superseded, by another verse: (Z, MF:) or found it to be so; like أَحْمَدَهُ “ he found him, or it, to be praised, or praiseworthy. ” (AAF.) In the Kur, ii. 100, Ibn-'Ámir reads مَا نُنْسِخْ for ما نَنْسَخْ . (TA.) [See also 1.]

The things succeeded one another, one taking the place of another. (L.) تناسخت القُرُونُ , (A, Msb,) and الأَزْمِنَةُ , (Msb, K,) The times succeeded, one in the place of another; (Msb, K;) one passing away after another. (K.) تناسخت الوَرَثَةُ , [The heirs died, one after another, and so cancelled their rights to inheritance]. (A.) تَنَاسُخٌ (S, K) and مَنَاسُخَةٌ (K) in the case of an inheritance, (S, K,) or with respect to the fixed primary portions of an inheritance assigned by the Kur-án, is The dying of heirs after other heirs while the original inheritance remains undivided. (S, K.) تناسخ It became changed from one state to another. (L.) تناسخت الأَرْوَاحُ [The souls transmigrated]. (MF.) تَنَاسُخٌ , [The transmigration of the soul from one human body to another, is thus explained;] the connexion of the soul with the body after its separation from another body, without the intervention ( تَخَلُّل ) of any time between the two connexions, by reason of the essential love subsisting between the soul and the body. (KT; in some copies of which تحلّل is put for تخلّل .) [See also 1.]

A copy, or transcript: (S, L, Msb, K:) so called because it supplies the place of the original: (L:) pl. نُسَخٌ . (Msb.) Also, A copy, or an original, from which a transcript is made: (L:) [pl. as above].

: see نَسِيخَةٌ .

, and نُسَخِيَّةٌ , A distant town, or district, or country. (K.) [A transverse or cross wind. See نَيِّحَة in art. نوح .]

and مُنْتَسِخٌ A copier, or transcriber, of a writing or writings, or of a book or books. (L.) آيَةٌ نَاسِخَةٌ A verse of the Kur-án that abrogates, annuls, or supersedes, another verse. (S.) [See 1.] [And so,] آيَةٌ مَنْسُوخَةٌ A verse of the Kur-án that is abrogated, annulled, or superseded, by another verse. (S.) [ نَاسِخٌ An epithet applied to a particle, (namely, إِنَّ and the like, and مَا and لا ,) or a verb, (namely, the abstract كَان and the like, and كَادَ and the like, and ظَنَّ and the like,) which effects a change of the grammatical form, or of the meaning, in a nominal proposition before which it is placed. الخُرُوفُ الناسِخَةُ لِلْإِبْتِدَآءِ The particles which annul the quality of the inchoative.]

(K) The sect which holds the doctrine of تَنَاسُخُ الأَرْوَاحِ [or the transmigration of souls], and denies the resurrection. (MF.)

and مُنْتَسَخٌ A writing, or book, copied, or transcribed. (Msb.) See نَاسِخٌ .

: see مَنْسُوخٌ .

: see نَاسِخٌ .